Democratic Socialism is Totalitarian Slavery

How to properly understand this system

S.G. Cheah
10 min readAug 14, 2018
Image composite from Hearts of Iron IV

Have you ever wondered why, despite the continuous systemic failures of socialistic, communistic or fascistic regimes, — as evidently proven by the observable catastrophes of 2018’s Venezuela, Mao’s China, and the Soviet Union — this idea of the Utopian collectivist commune just never seems to die? Witness the popular resurgence of this idea in today’s celebratory praise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s push for Democratic Socialism.

The secret to the existence and survival of these ideas is far more sinister than you may have realized.

George Orwell, who was a Democratic Socialist himself, anxiously warned us about this in ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’. Ayn Rand laid out their calculated plans in ‘The Fountainhead’. Friedrich Hayek illustrated the imminent dangers of what’s to come if they succeed in his ‘Road to Serfdom’.

Literature is brimmed with thinkers whom throughout history, had alerted us to the dangers of this idea. What they would have warned us today, which they’d did in the past, is how Democratic Socialism is simply slavery re-branded.

If you made the argument that Democratic Socialism is slavery, you would likely be accused of exaggerated fear mongering. But are you wrong? Read on to know why…

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S.G. Cheah
S.G. Cheah

Written by S.G. Cheah

I write for pleasure and I write because writing helps me think critically.

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